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Gaza 'blackmail': ex UK Shadow Foreign Secretary Gerald Kaufman
July 29, 2014, 2:19 p.m.
July 29, 2014, 1:57 p.m.
Janie Rezner interviews Stacy Malkan of Friends of the Earth
July 29, 2014, 11:47 a.m.
I'm talking with Stacy Malkan of Friends of the Earth talking about the bees and their alarming die-off. Bees and other pollinators, essential for two-thirds of the food crops humans eat everyday, are in great peril, and populations are dwindling worldwide. A growing body of science has implicated the world's most widely-used pesticides, neonicotinoids (neonics) made by giant chemical companies . .the usual culprits, Bayer and Syngenta and Monstanto, as a key factor in recent global bee-offs . . .(along with breast cancers and other kinds of cancers, I add. It is astounding what deadly products these companies have spread throughout our precious environment. Stacy Malkan has led campaigns to move the market to safer products. and author of "Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry" Stacy has appeared on Democracy Now, writes for the Huffington Post. Read more: http://www.foe.org/beeaction
Remembering to Forget in the Digital Age, Part One
July 29, 2014, 11:08 a.m.
Radio Curious discusses the impact the internet has on our memory and our ability to forget with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, author of âDelete: The Virtue Of Forgetting In The Digital Age."
July 29, 2014, 8:45 a.m.
Dana Lyons played at the 2014 Earth First! Round River Rendezvous at a Freedom Party for Jonathan Paul and Rod Coronado.
JULY 2, 2014 - THE ANATOMY OF A GREAT DECDPTION
July 29, 2014, 5:32 a.m.
This is an interview with David Hooper who awoke to the lies we've been told about 9/11 and began his own research. When family and friends thought he was crazy and wouldn't open their eyes to what he was learning and sharing, he decided to make a movie of what he had learned. This is the link to his website: www.theanatomyofagreatdeception.com The will be released in September. This is a very moving interview.
July 28, 2014, 9:59 p.m.
The conversational adventures of slackers Frank and Steve from Zotte Park. Comedy, snark and sadness ensues.
It starts out as a review but we decide to just shoot the crap.
JUNE 4, 2014 - THE CIA, DRUGS, WALL STREET & THE 9/11 CONNECTION - Part 4
July 28, 2014, 9:13 p.m.
This is the final part of the 2002 speech given by the late Michael Ruppert. This is a great speech that provides one
important part of how the elite operate.
Who's Counting - Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics (TWO of TWO)
July 28, 2014, 7:40 p.m.
Marilyn Waring was only 22 when she was first elected to the New Zealand Parliament. Re-elected three times she soon became chair of the prestigious Public Expenditures Committee, the sole budget, appropriations, public accounts committee of Parliament. She was shocked and dismayed when she learned that all countries that are members of the UN, practically the whole world, are forced to keep their books and design their budgets under the system of National Income Accounting which only records monetary transactions as Gross Domestic Product.
Waring said in part one that the GDP system counts only cash transactions in the market - in other words it recognizes no value other than money. This means there is no value to peace to the preservation of the environment and no value to unpaid work. The system leaves out half the population of the planet and the planet itself she says.
Israeli kidnappings and murders
July 28, 2014, 5:49 p.m.
More on the Gaza invasion including "Responding to Common Arguments Supporting Israelâs Operationâ", "U.S. media ignore Israelâs abduction of Palestinian teensâ", and Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy on "What Does Hamas Really Want?", oud music by M. Kontanis.
A Loving Bachardy and a Barmy Bachmann + Lesbian Lit + more!
July 28, 2014, 4:22 p.m.
The love letters of Christopher and his "kitty"; new lesbian literature from two women of color; Michelle Bachmann signals another homophobic U.S. presidential run; Russia plays spy games with LGBT activists, a Turkish court overrules homophobic hate speech, Kenya's high court orders NGO status for a trans rights group, a U.S. federal court blasts Colorado's civil marriage ban, Stonestreet snubs Santorum, and more global LGBT news.
Music For The Mountain Bluegrass - Show #9
July 28, 2014, 3:59 p.m.
Music for the Mountain is a weekly bluegrass radio program featuring that hard-driving bluegrass sound, with classic and new tunes running the gamut from Bill Monroe to Sierra Hull.
The program is posted here in two sections for broadcasters to insert breaks for station identification, etc. Please be careful to add enough additional material as the length of the segments will vary from week to week.
TDtSO, The Assault On 'Assault'
July 28, 2014, 2:29 p.m.
Continued reading from "They Dare to Speak Out" - chapter 7, The Assault on 'Assault', exposing the facts about Israel's June 1967 attack on a U.S. navy surveillance ship in international waters off their coast, and the many instances of cover-up of the incident, and intimidation and suppression of the firsthand book written about the incident; a little music.
July 28, 2014, 1:43 p.m.
The Motherland Influence: July 27, 2014
July 28, 2014, 12:37 p.m.
African, Latin & Caribbean music.
July 28, 2014, 12:31 p.m.
Congolese popular music.
#334 -- Potpourri 2 (Gaza and Honduras
July 28, 2014, 11:30 a.m.
Once again we try for a mixture of several different topics and stories--a "potpourri." (This sounds nicer than "hodgepodge.") We end up with just two: Israel's latest assault on Gaza and the causes of the wave of child immigrants from Central America.
Or maybe these are not even different topics but just two parts of the same old story.
The show features commentary by KD, an article by journalist TED RALL, a short video by Jewish Voice for Peace, and a song by BRUCE COCKBURN.
JUNE 17, 2014 - INTERVIEW WITH SHAHID BUTTAR
July 28, 2014, 7:58 a.m.
Shahid Buttar discusses the state of our civil liberties since 9/11 and offers suggestions for what can be done to get them back. He is the executive director of the Bill of Rights Defence Council - ( www.bordc.org).
JUNE 11, 2014 - THE NAUDET BROTHERS HOAX
July 28, 2014, 7:45 a.m.
Frank shares the research that he has compiled from
his own work and that of others to show that the Naudet brothers, who made the film "9/11" which captured the first plane hitting the towers on 9/11,
are not who they say they are.
MAY 27, 2014 - CIA, DRUGS, WALL STREET & the 9/11 CONNECTION
July 28, 2014, 7:21 a.m.
This is the 3rd part of the speech given by Michael Ruppert in 2002. It's followed by Cheryl's experience passing out brochures at the new 9/11 museum at Ground Zero in NYC. "9/11 Wake-Up Call" can also be downloaded at this website for two weeks after the first airing: www.wwuh.org
~Jazz; make mine "Cool"; 7/27/14; Set #1
July 28, 2014, 3:52 a.m.
~Jazz; make mine "Cool"; 7/27/14; Set #2
July 28, 2014, 3:50 a.m.
July 27, 2014, 10:46 p.m.
July 27, 2014, 12:10 p.m.
Sean proposes a solution to the "immigration crisis" on the southern U.S. border and explains what he thinks the REAL crisis is...
Migrant solidarity and squatting in Calais, France
July 27, 2014, 11:59 a.m.
Calais is a port city in France that sits as the major nexus of migrants attempting to leave the French (and thus European) mainland to reach the U.K. in seek of asylum. These migrants are fleeing the effects of imperialism (sometimes war, always capital) in their home countries. They hail from Pakistan, Egypt, Syria, Afghanistan, Chad, Nigeria, Sudan and many other places and seek peace and stability in the EU. The irony is that the EU, like the U.S., is a major exporter of the troubles the migrants seek to escape. In many ways, the "immigration crisis" in the U.S. mirrors the reality of the "immigration crisis" in the EU.
This week's episode of the Final Straw features a conversation with Greta, a No Border Activist living in the UK about struggles of immigrants in Calais, where over the last 2 months there have been raids that have netted hundreds of migrants seeking to leave the mainland and land in the UK with expectation of receiving a refugee status. Greta tells us about the immigration structure of the EU's Shengen Zone (of which the UK is not a part), about the recent raids and squat evictions in Calais, and the new squat "Impasse de Saline" outside of the city. She also touches on the plight of immigrants in the UK.
http://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/
The second half of the episode features a segment recorded by our audio-comrades at A-Radio Berlin, entitled "Europe and beyond: the resistance against mega-projects". From the A-Radio blog:
"We preÂsent an inÂterÂview with BogÂdan, an acÂtivist from RuÂmaÂnia. The main topic is the reÂcent 4th Forum against unÂneÂcessaÂry imÂpoÂsed meÂga-âproÂjects, a netÂwork of major struggÂles against inÂfraÂstrucÂtuÂre, miÂning and fraÂcking proÂjects (in EuÂroÂpe an beyÂond). The last meeÂting took place in May in Rosia MonÂtÂaÂna, RuÂmaÂnia. The preÂpaÂraÂtiÂon, the subÂject of the inÂvolÂveÂment of poÂliÂtiÂcal parÂties in such moÂveÂments as well as the fuÂture perÂspecÂtive of this parÂtiÂcuÂlar coÂorÂdiÂnaÂtiÂon are at the heart of the inÂterÂview, but it also gives a quick overÂview of the deÂveÂlopÂment of the local struggÂle against the proÂpoÂsed bigÂgest open-âcast gold miÂning proÂject in EuÂroÂpe."
More at http://aradio.blogsport.de/
For past shows dealing with anti-dev struggles like the ones mentioned above, see the following links:
Hambach Forest Defense: Germany (http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2014/04/07/hambach-forest-resists-rwes-lignite-carbon-mine/)
Zone à Défendre (ZAD): Notre Dames de Landes, France (http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2014/01/20/zad-some-views-from-the-inside/)
No-TAV: Turin, Italy (http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2014/07/15/no-tav-resistance-and-metal/)
Jim Eyman, Dan Zaleski of Workers Power - 7/26/14
July 27, 2014, 11:32 a.m.
Jim Eyman joins us in the studio to talk about the current situation in the Ukraine. Dan Zaleski of Workers Power group phones in to tell our listeners about his group and their activities.
http://www.workerspower.net/
July 27, 2014, 10:19 a.m.
I think we can all agree that current events have been rather grim and it's frustrating to balance the need for information with the obvious propaganda flowing from the corporate airwaves.
I thought this week that I would reflect on the past several years of doing the Soapbox and come up with my favorite shows and guests to present today.
Our first guest is filmmaker, Helena Norberg-Hodge who has produced a wonderful documentary called:
The Economics of Happiness
(you're welcome)
Our second guest is actor/author/comedian
Richard Belzer, who is not only smart and articulate,
but along with Phil Donahue, one of the the nicest people I
have ever interviewed on the Soapbox.
We talked about his book:
http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Wrong-Straight-Controversial-Cover-Ups/dp/1620878704
Desperately Seeking Solutions (Replay)
July 27, 2014, 9:18 a.m.
A medley of ways. From New Zealand, green alternative economy w. Laurence Boomert. Dr. Sharon Gourdji, U of Fla. on crops & climate. Josh Fox (Gasland) riff on fracking. Pacific growing expert Lorene Edwards Forkner.
July 27, 2014, 8:42 a.m.
In this edition of the In Context War Report, we discuss the reopening of Russiaâs intelligence and surveillance center in Cuba, U.S. capacity to defeat China in a Pacific war and the role of Islamic sects in the global wars.
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
July 27, 2014, 6:47 a.m.
We re going deep this week as we Queue up the (2007) French Film THE DIVING BELL & THE BUTTERFLY, the astonishing true-life story of Jean-Dominic Bauby, a man who held the world in his palm, lost everything to sudden paralysis at the age of 43, and somehow found the strength to rebound. This story was first received in Bauby s best-selling autobiography The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, then in Jean-Jacques Beineix s half-hour 1997 documentary of the same title, ten years after that Julian Schnable helms the camera in this full length motion picture. The movie follows Bauby s story, his instantaneous descent from a wealthy and congenial playboy and the editor of French Elle, to a bed-bound, hospitalized stroke victim with an inactive brain stem that made it impossible for him to speak or move a muscle of his body. This prison, as it were, became a kind of diving bell for Bauby- one with no means of escape. With the editor s mind unaffected, his only solace lay in the butterfly of his seemingly depthless fantasies and memories. Because of Bauby s physical restriction, he only possessed one channel for communication with the outside world, his single unaffected eye. By blinking, he not only began to interact again with the world around him, but incredibly, authored the said memoir via a code used to signify specific letters of the alphabet, Mathieu Amalric tackles the difficult role of Bauby in this film about the final last stand of the human spirit.